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tv   Reporter - German Food Banks Under Pressure  Deutsche Welle  March 17, 2018 1:15pm-1:31pm CET

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a german passport. it says resources ought to time to to include migrants and foreigners. many consider this racist and glorious rank and again we want to help anyone who doesn't have enough two weeks. but that's becoming more and more difficult. if. i were to. drop. it. it's eight in the morning at colognes food bank in a few minutes a fleet of fans will swarm out to the supermarkets and bakeries throughout the city as they do every morning. gail group has been volunteering at colognes food bank a six year service for one day a week he's one of the drivers into flames. he doesn't call nama by sinful it's all
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about doing something meaningful not in the sense of earning money for doing something that other people benefit from food. not for some anonymous company that just keeps profiting and with love for those who don't have any spank cash. people who are in need. for this and come up with. the warehouses full of canned and dry goods that have been donated social logistics specialists that's how food banks see themselves critics see them as a stopgap for failed government social policies. just in cologne the food bank passes out donations to ten thousand people in need at thirteen separate distribution centers. gail group and his penchant colleague labor have an eight hour day ahead of them. but recently their own interior workers drawn shop
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criticism in the city of s. noble places the german word for food is s. and the food bank has started turning away foreigners ever since then food banks reputations have suffered across the country. i'm looking at first they said the so-called freeze for new admissions was due to how aggressive some of the young men were who were coming as if that's completely fine i think those people need to protect themselves but now they've turned it around and said it's directed completely against foreigners i don't agree with that but. on each tour the pensioners visit nine supermarkets. could not tell over from the cologne food bank what do you have any food stamps for us today. and it's ninety kilometers in total will have to see which order we do it in and if we can manage it all in one trip the next best after i went up first in i got to work
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including. we have. three distribution centers they want to wage as a school. but they don't cook themselves so they only accept dry food bread and dairy products. were not home and then there are two ordinary distribution centers for those in need to have. at the first supermarket is braced for disappointment in the past years the supermarkets of optimize their purchases meaning there is less left over for the food banks at the same time the number of those in need is rising. the bench tables are in perfect shape but there are only two credits if this goes on many will wind up empty handed today. any green asparagus looks great. these are all things i would happily byo can see myself but later on we'll see some
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things where you can't help but wonder why they weren't just thrown out. you. don't need to do this meticulously record it some supermarket chains even advertise their generosity customers have split opinions on the matter. which is i think it's a good thing a good institution. of course there will always be a people taking advantage of it but that's no reason to stop doing it entirely i think what they're doing is good that. it's almost there are people who can't afford to vote then it's up to the government to do something about it. if they're alone or retired the government should take care of that. really put it. off to the next supermarket. the employees aren't always prepared when the food
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bank collectors drop by for a visit. so you have the keys. this time give a colleague have to sift edible food out of the trash back you know. get so upset about society's throw away mentality he says the so called of best before date prescribed for perishables is part of the problem. are you. sure that may make sense for raw meat and fish flight was not a fruit and vegetables bottled in canned goods but. that makes no sense to me. meanwhile those rank is waiting at one of the distribution centers for delivery to arrive she's already gathered a few crates of fruit on a way over. that's where it is now i wouldn't want to eat this anymore and if i'm
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not willing to ease it then i don't want to hand it out to others either. but these days some of brews to have some spots that's fine. oh here comes the van i have to move my car. i'm coming. how you'd shoot. up the heart if you got a lot today. with. the first people have already lined up and are waiting to be called in this is how doris rank tries to avoid crowding in arguments she already stopped admitting new customers months ago but didn't target just foreigners if they couldn't avoid today you can stay but ordinarily we've stopped accepting more people. but today we have plenty so you can stay but you'll have to wait until six. hours of what you should be able
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to speak german otherwise how can we communicate. volunteers so the food before it is distributed many used to come to the food bank themselves including doors frank . is it for. him with by my husband is very ill and requires level two. for when he retired early we had four children and i have never really worked with papers before. and now i don't receive much pension either. despite there being no new admissions more and more people keep coming to the distribution center in hopes of finding food for me and suddenly tensions rise. it's rent refused to serve a refugee she says he's already registered at a different distribution center. that's wrong it's no it's not it's not wrong ok.
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ok. thanks a lot you're welcome. as it is it's good that we have them registered in a computer database that was a lie you can't is that. these two pensioners have been coming to this distribution center for years they are happy to see so many migrants they wouldn't be able to make ends meet if it weren't for the food bank. there would be hard so hard i wouldn't be able to afford anything anymore sometimes i can't even afford to go to the hairdresser is. it used to be just as germans here right. many older people stopped coming because they were scared that that's the reason they stopped coming. they get pushed aside and elbowed out of the way when there's something special like christmas last year everything was set up here and they all
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came up with their big bags and elbow their way into it and as germans get nothing . but. the women working at the food bank can't quite confirm that but they say the tone has become rougher and less and less people are willing to help out they even have to take out their own trash now. not everybody is able bodied enough to help out and do the heavy lifting for hours . most of the volunteers here are they things. they already put up with a lot. and when it comes to the rooms we looked for some four years after the old community center was torn down it took us a year and a half to find our new home here. they still want to keep going though and make sure that especially the youngest are not left alone.
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it's a privilege to conduct research. i always say children need free to children need vegetables and when we have it they need milk and dairy products like yogurt and the team pays attention to that report from. a kurdish families also waiting only the youngest daughter can speak german she hadn't heard that foreigners were being turned away from food distribution centers before she saw it in the news. it's not like that here sometimes there's a little less but in the end it's always an option you got i was five. at least today everybody gets plenty of food not just fruits and vegetables but they also get your goat milk and sweets enough food to last at least two days all for the token price of two year olds. stuff. they get dollars frank also
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takes care of those who aren't able to come today. sometimes i notice that a regular customer doesn't show up because they are sick and. they call and apologize and then i pack a bag for them and bring it over to them before i go home in the evening. in a country as wealthy as germany nobody should have to go hungry not as long as gayle gruel and dollars frank can help it. yemen is starving. pediatrician a shrug mohan helps wherever possible. but there's only so much. a chip needs are delayed. dedication alone isn't enough to leave the.
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